Newgate Gaol, Newgate Street, City of London, 1768-c.1813

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
- Prison, courts and a lunatic hospital (5)
  - Newgate Gaol, Newgate Street, City of London, 1768-c.1813 (25)

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Reference number

SM D4/4/7

Purpose

Newgate Gaol, Newgate Street, City of London, 1768-c.1813

Aspect

[8] Section through the Chaple &c from North to South, Section through the Debtors Prison from East to West and Section through the Chaple, Keepers House &C from East to West

Scale

1/13 in to 1 ft

Inscribed

as above

Signed and dated

1768-c.1813

Medium and dimensions

Pen, sepia, light red, raw umber and yellow ochre washes, shaded within double-ruled border on laid paper, recently filled (455 x 670)

Hand

Baldwin

Watermark

(footed) P

Notes

King-post roof trusses are used; windows to the three-storey courtyard elevations are semicircular-headed; the section through the Chapel shows tall semicircular-headed windows and a gallery. The revised design ([SM D4/4/3], [SM D4/4/4], [SM D4/4/5], [SM D4/4/6] and [SM D4/4/7]), finely drawn by Robert Baldwin (died 1804) and on the same kind of support (some watermarked with a footed P) associated with the senior Dance and with a number of the younger Dance's drawings made in Rome, forms part of an incomplete set that may have been prepared for engraving.

REPRODUCED. J. Summerson, 'Newgate Gaol: catalogue of drawings in Sir John Soane's museum', Architectural History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, II, 1959, p.48.

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Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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